That's How It Happened

Low Culture is an A-List sort of blog, that does a good line in "compare and contrast" entries, often pointing out little plagiarisms, or fashion dopplegangers. Today both Kottke and bOINGbOING jumped on the Shopsin's meme, (as covered here with reference to the beloved Soup Nazi back in January.)
Cory Doctorow points out that the menu: "reads like the label on a bottle of Dr Bronner's soap". Look back to what Low Culture said a full seven months ago: "...denser than a Dr. Bronner's Soap label."
Obviously its OK to "borrow" links from other blogs, but full-on unattributed plagiarism? As they say in the letters page of Private Eye: Coincidence? I think we should be told.
While I take the time to trash the blogosphere A-Listers, check out the Kottke front page (as of August 6th) and see how in practically one breath he declares himself to be an "inconspicuous" consumer, who never wastes money on gadgets or worthless shiny upgrades, but who "is ready in a second" to buy this Marc Newson phone.
Not for any real reason, but these brief links are musically themed:

Sasha Frere Jones has a blog full of beautiful photos, serious discussions about music, and lots of baseball. He deserves your interest, first because he put 61 albums on his "Best of 2003" list, and second he's considering naming his first son after Nomar Garciaparra. Incidentally the GF and I argued whether it would be cool to name our (postulated) first son "OJ". I say it has cachet, and is likely to be unique at time of birth, she says I'm a moron.

Kid Carpet is the world's foremost exponent of shit-hop, and he makes funny songs from odd samples, including a great cover version of Van Halen's Jump.

John Sakamoto writes a weekly column for the Eye Magazine, called The Anti-Hit List. Each week he sends you spinning off into mad musical directions: he's always eclectic but not necessarily obscure, and always utterly engaging. From his recommendation, I bring you Park Spliced, which is Blur's Parklife given the Bastard treatment, not once but twice, by 20 different remixers.